Selected Poems

Textured cream quarto with red stamping; floral patterned golden jacket with brown text; illustrations; 178p. In English. "Tu Fu did not hesitate to tell of his own troubles as well as his deep concern for his land and folk. In his middle age he wrote "in grief for the people, burnt up with the agony of it all." When becdoming old, he said this: "Still I worry about war, knowing that I have no way to set the world aright." He wrote the famous poem about his small thatched hut which was broken by the autumn wind so that hewas unable to sleep. He said that if only there were a great mansion with thousands of rooms to house the poor and homeless, he would not mind being frozen to death himself. This reveals his lofty ideal." --Introduction. //Chinese poetry, Chinese poetry Translations into English,Translations. DJ in VG(-) condition, with edgewear and sunning to spine, approx 1in closed tear to front cover near spine and chipping along top edge.